Re: [PATCH 07/11] git-fetch: Limit automated tag following to only fetched objects

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Nov 10, 2007, 14:10 UTC
Message-ID: <4735BBC3.5040207@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <20071109121228.GA4241@prefect.vdbonline.net>

CJ van den Berg wrote:

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> On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 06:06:31AM -0500, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>> We now redefine the rule to be: "tags are fetched if they refer
>> to an object that was just transferred; that is an object that is
>> new to your repository".  This rule is quite simple to understand,
>> you only get a tag if you just got the object it refers to.
> 
> With this new rule a retrospectively pushed tag will never be fetched,
> right? With our local work flow tags are only ever pushed retrospectively
> because the tagged commit has to first pass regression tests. So this would
> be a major regression for us.
>

Same for us. Deciding after something has been pushed that "ok, this version works, let's make that one the release" is, I think, fairly common behaviour.

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